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Is there a connection between language and the enslavement or liberty of a people and their capacity for development? In this article, Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III elucidates this question and describes the approaches of the AfricAvenir Foundation to raise consciousness about language and development amongst the people and decision makers.
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Posted on 19.07.2007 in E-Library, AfricAvenir, Publications, Language, Education, Occasional Papers, Development, Recent Articles | 2 Comments »
C’est pour renouer avec ses objectifs et sa mission que la fondation AfricAvenir a relancé les journées conférence-débat. Pour cela, rien n’aurait été mieux indiqué que le thème choisis pour l’occasion : « La Philosophie africaine au service du développement africain ».
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Posted on 23.06.2007 in E-Library, AfricAvenir, AfricAvenir Douala, Philosophy, Development, Parole aux jeunes | No Comments »
Existe-t-il un lien entre la langue, le statut d’esclavage, de dépendance ou de liberté d’un peuple et sa capacité de développement? Le Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III s’en explique dans cet article et présente en même temps les méthodes d’approche que la fondation AfricAvenir a essayé de mettre en application.
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Posted on 22.06.2007 in E-Library, AfricAvenir, African Renaissance, Language, Development, Recent Articles | No Comments »
Africa, ‘the continent of terra incognito was, and continues to be, constructed as “nothing” and corpulent darkness’. Annwen Bates on the visual representations of the spectacle of aid in Africa. [Pambazuka]
Posted on 16.06.2007 in E-Library, General, Media, Development, Article | No Comments »
Article by Mukoma Ngugi. First published in ZMag. “… Africa has become the continent where the guilt-ridden come to score quick moral points. And we let them…”. [ZMag]
Posted on 22.04.2007 in International Cooperation, Development, Article | No Comments »
By Adebayo Olukoshi, CODESRIA Working Paper 2/2001. The West-African sub-region is unique in many important aspects. Home to the world’s most populous black country (Nigeria) and Africa’s oldest Republic (Liberia), it is also the region which produced the first African country (Ghana) to gain its independence from European colonial rule. [Full Text Monograph, pdf]
Posted on 17.03.2007 in E-Library, Economy, Globalization, Development | No Comments »
By Samir Amin. In: Africa Development, Vol. XXIX, Nos. 1, 2004, Special Issue on ‘Philosophy and Development’, CODESRIA. La naissance de la modernité en Occident est caractérisée par trois critères principaux: le capitalisme, la démocratie, et la laïcité. Mais pour comprendre ce phénomène, il faut se rendre compte des rôles joués par les trois religions dites du Livre—le christianisme, le judaïsme, et l’islam. [Full Text Article, pdf]
Posted on 11.03.2007 in E-Library, Philosophy, Religion, Development | No Comments »
Lewis Gordon. In: Africa Development, Vol. XXIX, Nos. 1, 2004, Special Issue on ‘Philosophy and Development’, CODESRIA. This article examines concepts of imitation, theodicy, and immaturity in Fanon’s ideas on development and explores how his critique unfolds in the thought of two scholars influenced by his work: Sylvia Wynter and Irene Gendzier. [Full Text Article, pdf]
Posted on 11.03.2007 in E-Library, Development | No Comments »
By Birgit Brock-Utne. The question we have posed ourselves in the LOITASA project is what children actually learn in the schools in Africa to-day when they are forced to try to acquire knowledge in a language they do not understand. [Full Text Article, pdf]
Posted on 07.03.2007 in E-Library, AfricAvenir, Language, Education, Occasional Papers, Development | No Comments »
Par Francis B. Nyamnjoh. Le présent article pose le postulat selon lequel l’éducation en Afrique est victime d’une transposition épistémologique dans laquelle la science est une idéologie et une hégémonie. [Full Text Article, pdf]
Posted on 24.02.2007 in E-Library, Education, Development | No Comments »